Although the Windows 8.1 Universal platform is supported, its Windows 10 iteration, which is more universal and will one day support both HoloLens and Xbox in addition to Windows 10 on PCs, tablets, and phones, isn't supported yet. Oddly, there's one platform not supported: Microsoft's Windows 10 Universal App Platform.

Add local documentation and another few gigabytes are eaten up. This makes for a hefty package with all the options and all the third-party components, Visual Studio 2015 weighs in at 23GB. It can target Windows and Android-during installation there's an option to fetch and install the Android SDK-and with the included Xamarin libraries it also supports iPhones, iPads, and Apple Watches. Out of the box, a full install of Visual 2015 Enterprise includes support for C#, C++, Visual Basic, Java, F#, Python, JavaScript, PowerShell, Microsoft's JavaScript-based TypeScript, and SQL.

A few days ahead of the Windows 10 launch, Microsoft has released the latest version of its development environment. Over the last few years, Microsoft has been making Visual Studio into a tool for cross-platform development, with a mix of both first- and third-party components, and Visual Studio 2015 takes this to the next level.

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